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CT Philanthropy Digest - Apr 2014

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04/25/2014

The April Digest includes the following headlines: Report Card to Monitor Equal Access to Health Care in Connecticut; Report Shows 6th Straight Year of Increased Demand for Nonprofit Services; Students Learn Money Management at Credit for Life Fairs; Family Foundation Supports Early Literacy Demonstration Site; Stage Company Receives Financial Literacy Award for Wells Fargo Adapted Curriculum; Site Offers Searchable Summer Camps List; Celebrating Community Foundations: 100 Years in America, 91 Years in Connecticut; Partnership Releases First Community Indicators Report on Metro Hartford; $250,000 Foundation Gift Will Fund Museum Expansion and more!

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Independent Sector

Independent Sector is the leading coalition of nonprofits, foundations, and corporate giving programs committed to advancing the common good in America.

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Beyond the Cause: The Art and Science of Advocacy

Independent Sector's publication is a study that identifies five essential approaches to successful advocacy and analyzes the effectiveness of advocacy on issues facing the entire nonprofit and philanthropic sector.

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Tips for Evaluating Advocacy: A Checklist for Grantmaking Organizations

Alliance for Justice provides six tips for funders for evaluating advocacy grants.

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Advocacy Capacity Tool

The Advocacy Capacity Tool (ACT) helps groups measure their readiness to engage in advocacy. Groups answer questions about their organization’s skills, knowledge, and resources for running issue campaigns, influencing legislation, or other forms of advocacy. The tool then immediately generates results. The ACT is useful for a range of nonprofits—including foundations looking for ways to support their grantees.

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Investing in Change: A Funder's Guide to Supporting Advocacy

This Alliance for Justice guide for foundations explains the various roles they can play in the advocacy process. Investing in Change can serve as an in-depth guide to navigating the tax code surrounding support of public charities, or a quick reference guide to answer a specific question.

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Dynamic Families: How Small Family Foundations Decide to Make Big Changes Through Public Policy

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01/2009

This investigation reveals common patterns among small family foundations that have thrived in the world of policy philanthropy. This publication spotlights efforts by four foundations, including Connecticut's William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund.

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Family Foundation

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Keeping Track: A guide to Recordkeeping for Advocacy Charities

This Alliance for Justice (AFJ) resource is designed to help public charities comply with federal tax law by tracking their lobbying activities. The guide includes sample forms, and describes multiple options for tracking staff time, overhead expenses, and direct costs.

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A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy

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01/2007

As more foundations and non-profits have engaged in advocacy and policy work to address public issues and effect social change, there is a growing desire to gauge the impact of investments in this area. How to evaluate the effectiveness of advocacy and policy work is an emerging question of interest within the philanthropic and non-profit audiences. Answering that question, however, has proven difficult because relatively few instructive resources exist to help those who wish to measure progress in this area.

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The Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy

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06/2011

The political process is chaotic and often takes years to unfold, making it difficult to use traditional measures to evaluate the effectiveness of advocacy organizations. There are, however, unconventional methods one can use to evaluate advocacy organizations and make strategic investments in that arena.

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Metro Hartford Progress Points 2014

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04/2014

A Greater Hartford partnership, including Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut, has released the first edition of a community indicators report, Metro Hartford Progress Points. The report highlights the challenges and opportunities facing the region.

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Community Improvement & Capacity

CT Philanthropy Digest - Mar 2014

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03/28/2014

The March Digest includes the following headlines: New Giving Day Raises $745,000 for Fairfield County Nonprofits; Newman's Own Awards $200,000 as Part of "Honoring Those Who Serve" initiative; Two Libraries Get Uplift from Foundations; CL&P and Yankee Gas support 24 Robotics Teams; Comcast Cares Day in CT; Outdoor Enthusiasts to Have More Info About Nagautuck River Access; Land Trust Establishes Fund to Protect Environment; And read the latest RFPs, grant announcements, people transitions and more!

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The Full Circle of Women & Girls

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12/2013

In The Full Circle of Women and Girls in Fairfield County, the Fairfield County Community Foundation’s Fund for Women and Girls reviews the diverse challenges faced by women and girls in our communities.

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State of Girls: Unfinished Business

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09/2013

The State of Girls: Unfinished Business is a groundbreaking report from the Girl Scout Research Institute that stakes out key issues and major trends affecting girls' leadership and healthy development in the U.S. today.

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Children & Youth Services

The Opportunity Picture: Connecticut

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12/2013

View Connecticut's "Opportunity Picture," from The Opportunity Index, a tool designed to provide a snapshot of what opportunity looks like at the state and county levels.

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CT Philanthropy Digest - Feb 2014

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02/21/2014

The February Digest includes the following headlines: WorkPath Fund Tackles Barriers to Employment; Foundation Provides a Portrait of a Region to Build a Stronger Community; Aetna Supports Digital Health Innovations for Underserved Communities; Cox Helping Parents to Keep Teens Safe on the Internet; Public-Private Partnership Funds New Digital Learning Center; College Students Help Pre-Schoolers Learn Through Foundation Partnership; Data Driven Org Receives Grant for Student Data Management; Tremaine Foundation Supports LD Work with Field Guide; Family Foundation Funds Academy for Teachers; PLUS read the latest grant announcements, people transitions and more!

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Glasspockets

Glasspockets is a Foundation Center initiative that champions philanthropic transparency in an online world. Launched in 2010, but with roots dating back to the Center’s founding in 1956, Glasspockets provides the data, resources, examples, and action steps foundations need to understand the value of transparency, be more open in their own communications, and help shed more light on how private organizations are serving the public good.

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Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency

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01/2014

Grant Craft's guide explores how transparency can strengthen credibility, improve grantee relationships, facilitate greater collaboration, increase public trust, reduce duplication of effort, and build communities of shared learning.

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Criteria, Eligibility and Nomination Forms for the Roberts Award

The Nancy P. Roberts Award honors a foundation or grantmaking organization for innovation in philanthropy.

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Connecticut Nonprofit Closures, Mergers and Alliances Report Summary 2007-2013

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01/2013

A report about the nonprofit strategic alliances activity between 2007 and January 2013. The report includes the extent list of nonprofit closures, mergers and alliances, with information by region.

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